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You’ll need to study up on CSS, it’s the only way to do borders. If you run Firefox, get an add-on called Firebug. Firebug will inspect a web page and show you the connection between the HTML output and the CSS.

Hi Jerry –

I think it’s a combination of time and number of posts. The forum is designed to encourage helpful participation, with a reward!

Did you mean plugins, or widgets?

I don’t know of any plugin for this.

I was thinking you could try a generic text widget:

Dashboard>Design>Widgets>Text

And just try adding the iframe code in the text widget. Might give you an idea.

He accidentally entered his yahoo.com email as a user name, I think.

Ah, the tag, yeah…

You need to create a new user name to use here, log out of the one you are using, and only log in using the new user name. I think if you don’t enter a user name in the sign up form, it defaults to using the email address. Which is probably what happened here to you.

A quick and dirty test – If you know how to set up an iframe, you might try it in a text widget and see if it works. Would look weird as heck…

Reload the page a couple of times after making any change, or be sure to empty the browser cache. FF in particular can fool you.

Yeah, good question about SWFObject.

I was so lost when trying to set this up, I hired some help and he wanted to use it. He says it does a better job of asking about the current Flash Player, or something. And it validates.

I was under the impression that it’s mostly purists that surf with JS off, but maybe I need to rethink that.

There’s still about 40% of the audience on IE6.

If you don’t mind, could you elaborate a bit on using the Custom Field, when you get a bit of time? At the moment my blog is on one server and the FLV files are on a separate server, both hosted under the same account. I like this since it splits the load on the servers. Could a Custom Field still go find the FLV files on the non- WP blog server?

Thanks!

caped – They do speak. Maybe you have audio off? That would be weird if it works that way, it’s a video, not flash.

Otto – The video player is using a JavaScript called SWFObject to load the SWF and then load a FLV into it, using a MySQL lookup table that matches the FLV to the Post ID number. Which makes it easy to make changes to the site by changing just the single SWF that will then change in every post.

So that’s sorta fundamental to the site. But I’m getting less impressed with SWFObject since it displays the FLV name and location in View Source, and there doesn’t appear to be a way to hide it or block access to the file. Right now, there’s nothing stopping anyone from hotlinking the FLV files. .htaccess doesn’t work because the JavaScript is run locally from each user’s browser.

I can hard code the SWF with its FLV into each post, but that makes managing the video players at a global level much harder. I eventually want to join an ad network and add their code to the video player. Much easier if it’s just the one SWF like I am doing now, versus re-programming every SWF in every post. Any suggestions?

In View Source, I see this:

<div id="side-main">
<div class="textwidget"><!-- Begin: AdBrite, Generated: 2008-09-09 13:14:34 --> <script type="text/javascript"> var AdBrite_Title_Color = '0000FF'; var AdBrite_Text_Color = '000000'; var AdBrite_Background_Color = 'FFFFFF'; var AdBrite_Border_Color = 'CCCCCC'; var AdBrite_URL_Color = '008000'; try{var AdBrite_Iframe=window.top!=window.self?2:1;var AdBrite_Referrer=document.referrer==''?document.location:document.referrer;AdBrite_Referrer=encodeURIComponent(AdBrite_Referrer);}catch(e){var AdBrite_Iframe='';var AdBrite_Referrer='';} </script> <script type="text/javascript">document.write('<scr'+'ipt src="https://ads.adbrite.com/mb/text_group.php?sid=836740&zs=3330305f323530&ifr='+AdBrite_Iframe+'&ref='+AdBrite_Referrer+'" type="text/javascript"></scr'+'ipt>');</script>
<div><a target="_top" href="https://www.adbrite.com/mb/commerce/purchase_form.php?opid=836740&afsid=1" style="font-weight:bold;font-family:Arial;font-size:13px;">Your Ad Here</a></div>
<!-- End: AdBrite -->
</div>

The start of which is “Text Widget”. So if you go to Design>Widgets I suspect you have a text widget at the top that has the Adbrite code in it. Delete the widget and you’ll delete the code.

That link is broken, it’s the comma. [fixed – mod]

You have at least three different advertisers. Which one?

Go into the Users>Manage Users – Your Username part of the Dashboard and edit the setting for your user name to include the use of the Visual Editor.

You can also go to Google and create a webmaster account, but it doesn’t seem to help much. I’ve read it can take 60-90 days before Google pays much attention to you. In-coming links are the most important, and they should contain keywords that Google finds at your site.

I haven’t used this one, but it appears to be set up okay:

https://www.jeroenwijering.com/?item=JW_FLV_Player

You’ll get both opinions on that, because it depends on what you want to do. WP.com comes with similar limitations to Blogger in terms of style choices and limited commercialization ability, but it is a relatively painless way to learn WP. With WP.org there are more options, and in addition to more responsibility for maintaining it, you have to select and pay for your own hosting.